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Customize My Designs.Com – Exercise your creativity!

One of the most satisfying things for me as someone who creates graphics, is to see those graphics on a commercial product. Normally the cost of doing that is too much for those of us that are not in the printing industry, not any more. I’ve developed an online designer tool to allows you to [...]

Music is Art – Forever Evolving

I had made a mistake when creating the above image. It should have read “music is art, forever evolving” but the more I thought about it, the more I liked the way it came out. Since music can create so much in us, it’s fitting that it is ‘life’. Albert Einstein said he loved music [...]

DesignArt – The Color of Diverse Design

Design, art, graphics – things I could not do until computers came along. Armed with a computer the sky is the limit for me. And having a talent for the creative, and the intellect for technology (left and right brained), the sky is the limit. There is so much opportunity to venture into different realms [...]

Information Technology and Security

Information technology and information security are my fields of expertise, and I have the pleasure of working within those fields as a career. The abstract thought process and mix of technical knowledge make it almost like play time. Thinking outside the box is outmoded – you have to think even more abstract since you are [...]

Web Technologies and Design

Technology and design go hand in hand, for me. I have developed an online apparel designer – a web application – and I’m not an engineer. This goes to show that it’s not out of the grasp of anyone that uses a computer, assuming you are interested of course. The good thing is there are [...]

Inspiration and Genius – One and the Same

“Inspiration and Genius – One and the Same” – Albert Einstein. I’m struck by the thought (or misconception) that being both left and right brained is unusual. It is just another state of being. Einstein was left and right brained, and some say he was bordering on insanity – or was it that people didn’t [...]

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  • Fixing the Filenames

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Hal Helps Out
    A friend of mine contacted me the other day with an interesting problem. She was trying to recover some files from the backup of an old BBS. In particular, she was trying to get at the attachments for various postings.
    The attachment files were [...]

  • A db_autopwn script run from msfconsole

    Here’s a handy script I found on the web, written by HD Moore himself. It works like a charm!
    $ vim ownitall.rc
    db_create /tmp/mynet.db
    db_nmap -sS -F -n 192.168.0.0/24 -T5
    setg AutoRunScript scraper
    db_autopwn -t -e -p -r
    $ msfconsole -r ownitall.rc
    Have fun with it.

  • Faster. Higher. Stronger – speeding up tasks

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Tim goes for Gold:
    The Olympics are in full swing. The world’s finest athletes are doing everything they can to shave fractions of a second; and not get caught doping. This episode we try to shave off precious seconds from our tasks, and not get caught [...]

  • Using SED, and such

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Ed’s Got Sed (well, a little bit of it at least):
    In a celebratory mood, I belt out:
    C:\> cmd.exe /v:on /c “for /f “delims=” %i in (‘echo Hippy barfday spew do you!’)
    do @set stuff=%i& echo !stuff! & set stuff=!stuff:i=a! & echo !stuff! & set
    stuff=!stuff:arf=irth! & echo [...]

  • How to Reliably Crash the iPhone’s E-mail Client

    From https://secure.grepular.com/ by by Mike Cardwell
    I have tested the following on two separate iPhones and it caused crashes on them both. I don’t have an iPhone of my own to test with, so I’m not able to investigate this much further.
    1.) Create a blank file named anything.txt and then upload it to some webspace. It [...]

  • Searching Text Strings

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Hal checks out the mail
    We love getting email from readers of the blog. And we love getting cool shell hacks from readers even more. Recently, loyal reader Rahul Sen sent along this tasty little bit of shell fu:
    How to search for certain text string in [...]

  • Time Bandits – Stomping, Stomping, Stomping …

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    I have always wanted to time travel. Since it isn’t possible to go back and kill Hitler I thought, maybe we can go back in time and change some files. Obviously, we don’t have the technology to actually go back in time and make changes. [...]

  • A Sort of List

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Hal starts off:
    Way back in Episode #11 I showed you a little trick for sorting directory listings by inode number. But it struck me recently that we hadn’t talked about all of the other interesting ways you can sort directory listings.
    For example, you can use [...]

  • CISOs Keep Breach Costs Lower

    The latest “Cost of a Data Breach” survey from the Ponemon Institute finds companies with a CISO are better able to handle loss of sensitive information
    By Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor
    Companies continue to pay a high price to clean up the mess created by a data breach, but having a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) may [...]

  • Companies on IT Security Spending: Where’s the ROI?

    Companies have spent millions to bolster their IT security in recent years. But some are starting to wonder if it’s been worth it, according to the 2010 Cyber Security Watch survey CSO conducted with the U.S. Secret Service, Carnegie Mellon University CERT and Deloitte & Touche.
    By Bill Brenner, Senior Editor, CSO Online
    Companies have spent many [...]

  • Your 5-Step Malware-Analysis Toolkit

    From http://www.campustechnology.com By Lenny Zeltser
    A LARGE NUMBER of computer intrusions involve some form of malicious software (malware), which finds its way to the victim’s workstation or to a server. When investigating the incident, the IT responder typically seeks to answer questions such as: What actions can the malware specimen perform on the system? How does [...]

  • Advanced Process Whack-a-Mole

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Ed Prepares to Open Up a Can of Process Whoop-Ass:
    I’ve never considered myself a particularly violent man. But, I have to admit it: Sometimes it just feels good to kill processes. I’ve even been heard to mutter a deadpan “Dodge This” in my lab late [...]

  • USB History

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Ed Embarks:
    Believe it or not, one of the things that we strive for in this blog is to be, not to put too fine a point on it, actually useful. We keep our musings here away from the theoretical and focused on the practical, in [...]

  • How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation

    From: http://maxklein.posterous.com/
    So you have somehow begged, borrowed or stolen an email list of 1000 users who you believe are interested in your new service. Would it not be great if you could somehow convert that list into real people, with real photos, and perhaps even more concrete information like “My service has a higher than [...]

  • Say Hello to My Little Friend Netstat

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Ed greets 2010:
    Many times on our little blog here, I’ve spoken appreciatively of some of my favorite Windows command-line friends, including wmic, netsh, and sc. Yes, I’ve fought the desire to personify them, but I can’t help but think of them as buddies… Buddies with [...]

  • Yule Be Wanting an Explanation Then

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Hal returns to the scene of the crime
    I opened last week’s post saying there would be no “explanations or excuses”, but apparently that wasn’t good enough for some of you. So at the request of our loyal readers, we’d like to revisit last week’s episode [...]

  • Yule Love It!

    From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket
    Hal has indulged in a bit too much holiday cheer:
    Presented for your enjoyment with no explanation or excuses:
    $ ct=12; while read line; do
    [ $ct == 1 ] && echo -n Plus || echo -n $ct;
    echo ” $line”;
    ((ct–));
    done <<EoLines
    keyboards drumming
    admins smiling
    systems thrashing
    networks crashing
    hosts a-pinging
    Windows versions
    (billion) Linux [...]

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